That's exactly what needs to be done. For starters.
Could they even do any of that with just the House? They won't do it anyway, but could they?
At this point it doesn't even really matter, it's just a question of whether anyone would step up to stop them. "The Rules" in general have already been well and truly trod upon and I'm not sure we make it out the other side of this without some restructuring of them.
Iirc any resolution to that extent would likely have to pass through both levels of Congress. But, if enough seats flip in both chambers next year, it could certainly happen. Checks and balances and whatnot.
Obviously with the Senate they can cut any budget/pass any law.
On their own the house can cut funding eventually. Push comes to shove, the house needs to vote for spending. They either pass a budget with the cuts, or the government shuts down.
There really isn't a mechanism for the house that nationalize anything without the support of the Senate that I'm aware of. The house can call the vote day one to nationalize, but it's symbolic without a legit path on the Senate
How is he allowed to remove the secret service protection from the former vice president?
What?
There was an order in the previous administration to extend protection for extra time. This administration just cancelled the extension.
The former VP actually only gets 6 months of protection by default. Beyond that it needs to be actively extended, which Trump didn't do.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos
Based based based based based
Sometimes, I feel regret that Romney didn't beat Obama. Not because Romney would have been a better president. Just because of the timing, if Romney had won, then maybe Trump would never have become president, or at least he'd have been president later. Romney's still a Republican, so it would have sucked, but Trump is fucking poison.
Now imagine how different our country would be if Gore won...
"If we counted Gore's win"
I almost edited to "if Gore was allowed to win"
With all the nonsense about "fiscal conservatives", people forget that the last administration to balance the budget was Clinton/Gore - and not only was the budget balanced, it actually had a fucking surplus. One of the big debate points going into the 2000 election cycle was what to do with this surplus. Naturally enough the surplus went towards tax cuts for the rich and now we're fucking $35 trillion dollars in debt.
Someone will weigh in here with "deficits don't matter" and "the government can just print money if it needs it".
That's an interesting thought... I can't help but feel like it would have just delayed an inevitable outcome though, potentially allowing the underlying political movement even more time to grow and fester. It's unknowable, but I feel like we'll be pondering questions like that for a long time.
In reality the Dems will do none of those things though. They won't nationalize anything because they are neoliberals. They won't fully defund ICE because they want racists to vote for them too. They'll just reduce the budget and maybe stop putting kids in cages. They won't shut down funding for the exec branch because they'll say it is "irresponsible".
More things they'll never do:
I'd love to be proved wrong, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.
Starlink shouldn't exist. it's unnecessary , we have better options... make internet a utility and force the companies we already gave millions to, to actually modernize infostructure and bring internet to undeserved locations that still have 56k
Starlink should 100% exist in some form or another, but it replacing terrestrial landline internet is madness. We can and should absolutely do both things.
Nice Hightower reference
Nationalising Starlink and Spacex are a great idea, why not Tesla as well? It’s already HEAVILY propped up by government spending. Do it at gunpoint so we don’t have to pay Elon anything at all
Isn't the correct process to make a flippant post offering to buy the whole thing on twitter ?
correct analysis. Absolutely go down to their level. Weirdly enough, you will even take some of their voters away with that. Some of them don't care that much about the words, just the way they are spoken.
I think a problem the Democratic Party is facing is that, today, few believe they will
Reissue all US currency and people are only able to change to the new real currency $100k a day over the course of a year, after that it all becomes void. And you need to actually go to the bank and sign a slip each time.
They’re not going to do shit
Day 1 should be to Fire everyone even remotely related to trump. Then take trumps entire cabinet to a CIA black site. Then start going after the treasonous media figures. Then day 2 you can start fixing things.
They won't though 🥲
The current MAGA Republicans make neoconservatives look like angels. The neoconservatives are lesser evil, but it doesn't exonerate them from the Bush-era warcrimes.
Remember when the new Democratic President prosecuted the Bush-era war crimes?
Me neither.
I would!
Rambling on Twitter makes money. And politicians have finally figured out they can get in on the rage influencer pie, too.
It’s super effective.
Ugh, I can’t wait for Twitter to enshittify so much it withers away.
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